Publications

Peer reviewed publications

  • Bodó, B., Gervais, D. J., & Quintais, J. P. (2018). Blockchain and smart contracts: the missing link in copyright licensing? International Journal of Law and Information Technology. DOI: 10.1093/ijlit/eay014\
  • Bodó, B., & Giannopoulou, A. The Logics of Technology Decentralization: the Case of Distributed Ledger Technologies. In M. Ragnedda, & G. Destefanis (Eds.), Blockchain and Web 3.0: Social, Economic, and Technological Challenges Routledge, Forthcoming https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3330590
  • Giannopoulou, A. & Ferrari V., Distributed Data Protection and Liability on Blockchains. In S. S. Bodrunova et al. (Eds.), INSCI 2018 Workshops, LNCS 11551, Springer, 2019, pp. 203–211. DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-17705-8_17
  • Giannopoulou, A. (2019). Access and reuse of machine-generated data for scientific research. Erasmus law review, 2019(2), 155-165. https://doi.org/10.5553/ELR.000136
  • Giannopoulou, A. (2018). Understanding Open Data Regulation: An Analysis of the Licensing Landscape. In B. van Loenen, G. Vancauwenberghe, & J. Crompvoets (Eds.), Open Data Exposed (pp. 101-125). (Information Technology and Law Series; Vol. 30). The Hague: Asser Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-261-3_6 [details]

Blockchain&Society Research Nodes series

  • Ferrari, V., Quintais, J. P., Giannopoulou, A., & Bodó, B. (2018). Report on the “GDPR, data policy and compliance” workshop organized by the EU Blockchain Observatory. (Blockchain&Society Research Nodes; Vol. 1, No. 1). Institute for Information Law. Download
  • Bodó B. , Quintais J.P., Giannopoulou A., & Ferrari V. (2018). Trust in decentralized data infrastructures. (Blockchain&Society Research Nodes; Vol. 1, No. 2). Institute for Information Law. Download
  • Giannopoulou, A., Bodó, B., Ferrari, V., & Quintais, J. P. (2019), Report on “Validation rules for blockchain research: International workshop on scholarly blockchain research priorities” (Blockchain&Society Research Nodes; Vol. 2, No. 1). Institute for Information Law. Download
  • Bodó, Balázs (2020) Trust, Blockchain-based Technologies, Public Sector, and the Social Good. Blockchain & Society Policy Research Lab Research Nodes 2020/1 Download
  • Giannopoulou, Alexandra (2020), Digital Identity and Trust: Response to the Open Public Consultation on the eIDAS Regulation. Blockchain & Society Policy Research Lab Research Nodes 2020/2 Download
  • Bodó, B. (2021). The commodification of trust. Blockchain & Society Policy Research Lab Research Nodes 2021/1. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3843707
  • Bodó, B., & De Filippi, P. (2022). Trust in Context: The Impact of Regulation on Blockchain and DeFi. SSRN Amsterdam Law School Legal Research Paper Series. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4051842

Policy documents, policy work

  • Bodó, B., van de Pol, J., van Deventer, O., Hoepman, J-H., van den Hoven, J., de Kok, A., … Stevens, M. Dutch Blockchain Research Agenda Download
  • Bodó, B. (2020). Trust, blockchain-based technologies, institutions, and the social good. In Scanning the European Ecosystem of Distributed Ledger Technologies for Social and Public Good (pp. 88-91). European Commission – Joint Research Centre. https://doi.org/10.2760/802653
  • Digital Identity Advisory Board, Ministry of Interior Netherlands
  • Data Governance Reading Group

Events

Press

Talks, conference presentations, workshops

  • 10 Jul 2022, Digital geographies of power: the scale of digital money infrastructures, Fractious Connections: Anarchy, Activism, Coordination, and Control, SASE’s 34th Annual Meeting
  • 2 Jun 2022, The Rise of Nfts: These Aren’t the Droids You’re Looking For, Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 27 May 2022, The Commodification of Trust, 72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference, Paris, France
  • 27 May 2022, The Platformisation of Digital Payments: The Fabrication of Consumer Interest in the EU FinTech Agenda 28 May 2022 , 72nd Annual International Communication Association Conference,
  • 25 May 2022, Is a European Data Strategy Without Trade-offs Between Economic Efficiency and Fundamental Rights Protection Possible?, CPDP-conference
  • 24 May 2022, The Platformisation of Digital Payments: The Fabrication of Consumer Interest in the EU FinTech Agenda, CPDP-conference
  • Blockchain and the Law 2 ECTs / 12h course at the LL.M. International Business Law LL.M. Law in a Digital Economy , https://catolicalaw.fd.lisboa.ucp.pt/course/blockchain-and-law-blockchain-and-law
  • 4 Mar 2022, Measures taken by platforms to mitigate risks, EU-US TTC Workshop 2: Algorithmic Amplification
  • 17 Feb 2022, The commodification of trust, Trust and the Governance of Technology: GOVTRUST Annual Symposium 2021, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 14 Apr 2022, Techno-legal Challenges in Digital Identity Infrastructures: the Example of Self Sovereign Identities, Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies,
  • 23 May 2022, Encoding identities: the case of commercial DNA databases, panel organizer, CPDP, 2021
  • 2 Dec 2021, The Competition of Data Ordering Approaches, Impact of Technological Advances on Individuals: Interaction of Law & Informatics , Würzburg , Germany
  • 18 Nov 2021, Mediated trust: a theoretical framework to address the trustworthiness of technological trust mediators, “Time to Reshape the Digital Society”: celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the CRIDS, Namur, Belgium
  • 4 Nov 2021, The commodification of trust, faculty seminar talk, Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid, Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • 23 Oct 2021, Blockchains & Digital Activism, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, Netherlands, https://www.whitepapersondissent.xyz/panel-discussion/blockchains-digital-activism
  • 12 Oct 2021, Senate expert session about AI: proportionality examination – better legal regulation of AI-systems, Expert session organised by the Senate of the Netherlands. https://www.eerstekamer.nl/commissievergadering/20211012_j_v
  • 6 Oct 2021, Trust, Blockchain-based Technologies, the Public Sector, and the Social Good, Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) annual meeting, Toronto, Canada
  • 9 Jun 2021, Opening Session – The Role of Knowledge Commons and Knowledge Commoning in Addressing Global Crises, IASC 2021 Knowledge Commons Virtual Conference
  • 9 Jun 2021, The commodification of trust, IASC 2021 Knowledge Commons Virtual Conference
  • 20 Apr 2021, The Human Rights Impact Assessment Roundtable at Amnesty International, Expert session organised by Amnesty International about “human rights impact assessment”, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 8 March 21, Trust production with technology, Mozilla Festival 2021,
  • 26 January 2021, Digital rights for change: Reclaiming infrastructures, repairing the future., Privacy Camp 2021: Platform Resistance and Data Rights, https://privacycamp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/PrivacyCamp21.pdf
  • 23 Nov 2021, NFTs and the Law, Vereniging Kunst, Cultuur & Recht
  • 18 Nov 2021, Digital identities: between convergence, commodification, and control, “Time to Reshape the Digital Society”: celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the CRIDS, Related event, 18/11/21 → 19/11/21, Namur, Belgium
  • 15 Nov 2021, Legal challenges for open data, TODO – Twinning Open Data Operational H2020 seminar, Description, 2 Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands.
  • FdR overig onderzoek, IASC 2021 Knowledge Commons Virtual Conference, Resisting platformised education through data rights, Description, IASC 2021 Knowledge Commons Virtual Conference, Related event, 9/06/21 → 11/06/21
  • Description, RightsCon, Related event, Panel: “Biometrics as a panacea? Resisting immunity surveillance in digital identification”, RightsCon, 7/06/21 → 11/06/21
  • FdR overig onderzoek, TILTing Perspectives 2021, “What’s Work Got To Do With It? Data Rights and Platform Resistance”, Description, Related event, Degree of recognition: International, 19/05/21 → 21/05/21, TILTing Perspectives 2021 : Regulating in Times of Crisis, Tilburg , Netherlands
  • Description, University of Birmingham, Visiting fellow, Degree of recognition: International
  • 19 Feb 2021, Open source in open science, EOLE 2020 Webinar #4 : Open source and open science within public administrations,
  • 29 Jan 2021, Governing “European values” inside data flows, Privacy Camp, Privacy Camp : Platform Resistance and Data Rights,
  • B. Bodó (Speaker), D.J. Gervais (Speaker), João Quintais (Speaker), Blockchain and Smart Contracts: The Missing Link in Copyright Licensing? 12 Feb 2018, “Blockchain, Law & Policy workshop”,  Amsterdam, Netherlands. 
  • Bodó, B. (keynote) (10-4-2018). Innovation in the age of distributed ledger technologies, The Future of Digital Innovation in the European Union, Brugge, Belgium.
  • Bodó, B. (keynote) (24-5-2018). Keynote: Trust in Data on Blockhains, Barlaeus dinner, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Bodó, B. (keynote) (28-5-2018). Keynote: Key research questions on blockchain technologies, Advisory Board meeting of the Faculty of Economics and Business, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • J.P. Quintais (Participant), #Blockchain for Good: wat zijn de opbrengsten? 26 Jun 2018, Workshop with members of projects funded by the SIDN fonds under the umbrella program “Blockchain for Good”, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 
  • Bodó, B. (speaker) (4-9-2018). The conditions of doing policy research, 5 Years of Internet Policy Review, Berlin, Germany.
  • Bodó, B. (speaker) (20-9-2018). DECENTRALIZED TECHNOLOGIES AND GOVERNANCE AT SCALE – DE/RE/CONSTRUCTING THE BLOCKCHAIN NARRATIVE, The Internet, Policy & Politics Conference 2018, Oxford, United Kingdom.
  • J.P. Quintais (Speaker), Blockchains and Data Protection: a brief overview, 5 Oct 2018, Workshop: Controlling your data: the competing visions of blockchains and GDPR, part of the Amsterdam Privacy Conference, 5/10/18, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 
  • Bodó, B. (speaker) (8-10-2018). The social organization of distrust: does technology have a role?, Amsterdam Privacy Conference 2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Bodó, B. (keynote) (17-10-2018). Will blockchain become a wave in the copyright distribution market?, Seoul Copyright Forum 2018, Seoul, Korea, Republic of.
  • Valeria Ferrari (Speaker), Fare Impresa e Nuove Tecnologie – Uno sguardo al fenomeno blockchain, 22 Oct 2018, Torino, Italy. 
  • J.P. Quintais (Speaker), Blockchains, Smart Contracts and Copyright, 29 Nov 2018,  International Conference on Blockchain, Public Trust, Law and Governance, Groningen, Netherlands, 28 Nov 2018 – 30 Nov 2018. 
  • Valeria Ferrari (Speaker), Unlocking the gateways between law enforcement and blockchain technologies. A study on the enforcement of Anti-Money Laundering policies over crypto-assets, at International Conference on Blockchain, Public Trust, Law and Governance, Groningen, Netherlands, 28 Nov 2018 – 30 Nov 2018. 
  • Bodó, B. (keynote) (30-11-2018). Decentralization, Objectification and the Social Organization of Distrust: Exploring the Logics of Power and Governance through (Blockchain) technology, Blockchain, Public Trust, Law and Governance, Groningen, Netherlands.
  • J.P. Quintais (Speaker), Blockchains, Smart Contracts and Copyright, 3 Dec 2018, Blockchain and Society Policy Research Lab: ERC Advisory Board Meeting. J.P. Quintais (Speaker), Blockchains, Smart Contracts and Copyright, 4 Dec 2018, Validation rules for blockchain research : International workshop on scholarly blockchain research priorities. 
  • Bodó, B. (speaker) (6-12-2018). The social construction of trust, and decentralized technologies, ALFA – Amsterdam Law & Finance Association, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • Valeria Ferrari (speaker), Unlocking the gateways between law enforcement and blockchain
  • technologies, JURIX 2018 : 31st International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, Groningen , Netherlands, 12/12/18. (Winner of Doctoral Consortium best paper award).  
  • Bodó, B. (speaker) (21-1-2019). On the notions of “trust” and “trustless”, Blockchain Workshop Theory & Practice, Paris, France.
  • Balázs Bodó (Speaker), Policy questions around decentralized technologies,  Annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 17/02/19, Washington, DC, United States
  • J.P. Quintais (Speaker), Blockchain and Intellectual Property, Max Planck Institute (Max Planck Institute), 02/21/2019 
  • J.P. Quintais (Speaker), Blockchains, Smart Contracts and Copyright: Beyond the Hype, 23 Feb 2019, 7th Annual MIPLC Alumni Conference on Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 
  • Balázs Bodó (Speaker), Trust and decentralization – talk at the interdisciplinary colloquium on Law, Technology and Society, Haifa University Law School, 14 Mar 2019
  • Balázs Bodó (Speaker): How not to “mortgage our future to temporary things” – introducing the research program of the Blockchain&Society Policy Research Lab, Haifa University Law School, 13 Mar 2019
  • J.P. Quintais (Speaker), Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Copyright, 14 Mar 2019, Seminar organized by the Grup de Recerca en Dret Patrimonial, Law School, Pompeu Fabra University (International), 
  • Valeria Ferrari (Speaker), Crypto-assets under European financial law: legal and enforcement issues, TILTing Perspectives 2019, Tilburg University, Netherlands, 17 May 2019.